Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Whitley Strieber
Charting Apr 29, 1984 → Oct 15, 1989 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.98%
- week of Jun 17, 1984
- Career Power
- 20
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- July 1983 – July 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- July 1979 – July 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of May 20, 1984
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 20 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
At their peak
1983 in books →Whitley Strieber's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1983 to July 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King446
- 2Umberto Eco420
- 3James A. Michener404
- 4Danielle Steel317
- 5Robert Ludlum246
- 6Joan D. Vinge193
- 7Jackie Collins180
- 8Bill Adler143
- 9Thomas Chastain143
- 10Judy Blume140
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.